Pip Hinman is a member of the Political Committee of the Democratic
Socialist Party, and national coordinator of Action
in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific. She was the national coordinator
of the DSP's campaigning against the war, and much of the content of this
article was first presented as a report to the DSP National Committee,
April 26-27, 2003.

The authors are longtime socialist activists in the United States and wrote "The Bush Doctrine" in issue 22. Miah is a member of the editorial board of Links; Sheppard and Lund are contributing editors.

"We will be called imperialists regardless, so we might as well be
competent imperialists." (Stephen Peter Rosen, professor of strategic studies at
Harvard University, Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2003.)

"It's time for the US to behave more like an occupying power." ("The
Bremer Regency", editorial, Wall Street
Journal, May 16, 2003.)

"The notion that you can't export democracy through the barrel of a gun
is simply wrong. We did it in Germany, Italy, Japan and elsewhere." (Max
Boot, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, as quoted in the
San Francisco Chronicle, May 4, 2003.)

1. What US imperialism accomplished in the war

The most powerful military power humanity has ever seen is beating its
chest and proclaiming to the world: "Do what we say or face the consequences".